Quotes About Intuition

Reason is nothing without imagination.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.